Home built laptop

After a long while and tons of fighting with myself I've decided to for go the home built laptop, for now; mainly because the wife just bought me a Eee PC!

I am now the proud owner of a 10.1" 1.6Ghz Atom 270 Blue 1005HAB Eee PC. Granted the thing comes with Win7 starter edition. In time I plan on loading a few different Linux distros onto it. I'm leaning towards using Ubuntu's Netbook remix and BT4, but this will come in time. I'm not sure that I want to completely remove the win7 OS for the device. The 8.5 hrs of battery life is hard to ignore. And I do know that Linux doesn't seem to be all the way up to par when it comes to battery life.

Research for laptop

The other day I went looking at BestBuy at their Netbooks. I was interested in their keyboard sizes. And during this I found out that my long fingers don't work well with many of the smaller ones (Eee PCs) particularly the Netbooks with screen sizes under 10".

I've also been scouring the Internet for a platform to use as my basis; I've looked at many embeded system boards. And have found that I'm not sure on which to get/use. I'd like to use one based upon AMD CPUs, particulary the Geode.

Crazy Idea (aka Laptop)

I had a crazy idea the other day. Build myself a laptop, it couldn't be that hard, could it? I decided to go semi-embedded, a small LCD screen, CF flash storage and a huge USB for more storage. Sounded quite easy until I started trying to figure out how to use a battery to power the device.

I'll have to write more on this crazy idea when I start working on this more. Until then I'll be trying to figure out exactly what components I want and how to jam the together.